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Your role is that of an Enterprise Architect at an multinational company. The company
designs, manufactures and sells products worldwide. It has grown rapidly by
acquisition and has inherited numerous different business processes and related IT
systems. This has led in many instances to a duplication of resources.
The Chief Operating Officer (COO) has made the decision to consolidate and reduce
redundant business processes and IT systems in the sales operations. She has
committed to the CEO that the business will migrate to a set of standardized solutions
that will reduce costs and improve efficiency.
The Enterprise Architecture practice at the company has been assigned to manage
the project. At present, there are no architectural assets in the Architecture Repository
related to this initiative. All assets will need to be acquired, customized, or created
from scratch. The CIO, who is the project sponsor, has identified the need for a set of
commercial off the shelf package applications as candidates for the target. She has
also stated that she is not concerned about preserving the existing business
processes or IT systems within the sales operations.
Your team leader has asked you to assist with developing a response to the following
questions:
Which groups of users will use the different applications and IT systems?
How many licenses and type of licenses are needed for the packaged applications?
What level of support is needed for the users?
Where should the support center(s) be located?
What new capabilities will be required to support this business change?
How much will the migration cost?
This project is using an iterative approach for executing the TOGAF Architecture
Development Method. The architecture development project has completed the
Architecture Vision Phase. A set of packaged applications has been identified and is
being considered, the next iteration will include development of the Business and
Application Target Architectures.
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[Note: You may need to refer to the Architectural Artifacts chapter, section 31.6
(located in Part IV) of the reference text in order to answer this question.]
You have been asked to identify the most appropriate catalogs, matrices, and
diagrams to support the Architecture development.
Based on the TOGAF Standard, Version 9.2, which of the following is the best
answer?
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You are serving as the Lead Architect for an Enterprise Architecture project team within a multinational oil and gas corporation. It is organized into two major business groupings:
-Upstream operations which include exploration for crude oil and natural gas and operating the infrastructure necessary to deliver oil and gas to the market.
-Downstream operations which include the manufacturing, distribution and marketing activities for oil products and chemicals
Safety is a priority for the company, with the aim to ensure id causes zero harm to people and the environment. The company has to satisfy the regulatory requirements of each of the countries it operates in.
The downstream business generates a third of the company’s profits worldwide and includes more than 30,000 petrol stations and various oil refineries. In some countries it also includes oil refining, a retail station network, lubricants manufacture and marketing, industrial fuel and lubricants sales. The practice for the downstream business has been to operate locally managed by local “operating companies”.
The Governing Board is concerned about the risk posed by operating in this complex global environment with a large part of the downstream business represented by local operating companies. As a result, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) has appointed a Chief Compliance Officer (CEO) to be responsible for overseeing and managing compliance issues for the corporation. The CCO reports directly to the CEO.
The CCO has approved the expenditure of resources to establish an Enterprise Architecture program, and has mandated the use of the TOGAF standard as the framework. He has requested to be informed about the status of downstream operations that could impact regulatory compliance. He also wants the corporate legal staff and auditors to analyze all proposed new downstream operations to ensure that they are within the legal guidelines for each country. In addition, the local operating companies should be able to see that the architecture is appropriate for their needs.
The architecture project team has worked within the sponsor to complete a detailed Request for Architecture Work providing the high level project description. As the project commences the next phase, the necessary approvals from corporate and line management have been …..
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You have been asked to recommend an approach that would enable the development of an architecture that addresses the needs of the Chief Compliance Officer, legal staff, auditors and the local operating companies.
Based on the TOGAF standard, which of the following is the best answer?
Please read this scenario prior to answering the question
You have been assigned the role of Lead Enterprise Architect within a leading
professional services company that specializes in providing outsourcing services.
Outsourcing services include business processes, infrastructure, and service
management. The company also provides business consulting services.
The company has an established Enterprise Architecture program based on the TOGAF
standard, sponsored jointly by the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Information Officer.
An Architecture Board has been formed comprised of IT staff executives and executives
from the major service areas and consulting practice.
With numerous service areas and many diverse engagements in progress at any given
time, overall engagement management within the company has become challenging.
The company has recently had a number of high profile projects that have overrun on
budget and under delivered, thereby damaging its reputation.
The Enterprise Architecture (EA) team has been working with the Strategic Planning
team to create a strategic Enterprise Architecture to address these issues. The EA team
has held workshops with key stakeholders to define a set of architecture principles to
govern the architecture work. They have completed an Architecture Vision at a strategic
level and laid out high-level Architecture Definitions for the four domains. They have set
out an ambitious vision of the future of the company over a five-year period. This will
include three distinct transformations.
The CIO has made it clear that prior to the approval of the detailed Implementation and
Migration plan, the EA team will need to assess the risks associated with the proposed
architecture. He has received concerns from some of the senior management across the
company that the proposed architecture may be too ambitious and they are not sure it
can produce sufficient value to warrant the risks.
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You have been asked to recommend an approach to satisfy these concerns.
Based on the TOGAF Standard, Version 9.2, which of the following is the best
answer?
Please read this scenario prior to answering the question
You are serving as the Lead Enterprise Architect for a life insurance, annuities, and
pensions company, which has been formed through the merger of three companies.
The company consists of three divisions with the same names and division
headquarters as their predecessors.
The lack of integration between the three divisions has increasingly caused problems
in the handling of customer and financial information. At present, each division
maintains its own applications. Despite an earlier initiative to install a common
application to manage customer, products, and claims information, each division has
different ways of defining its data elements and has customized the common
application to the point where the ability to exchange information is error-prone.
The Chief Information Officer (CIO) has formed an Enterprise Architecture
department, and one of the primary goals in its charter is to coordinate efforts
between the teams in each division. The CIO has also formed a cross-functional
Architecture Board to oversee and perform governance. The TOGAF standard is used
as the basis for the core framework of the Enterprise Architecture program. The
company has an existing team of security architects.
The company has made the decision to introduce a common web portal, contact
center software suite, and document management system. Also the company has
selected a single enterprise-wide customer relationship management (CRM)
application to consolidate information from several applications that exist across the
divisions. The application will be used by each of the divisions and accessed by third
party partners through well-defined interfaces.
The CIO is concerned that the new application must be able to manage and
safeguard customer information in a secure manner that meets or exceeds the legal
requirements of the countries in which the company operates. This will be an
increasingly important capability as the company expands its online services in
cooperation with its external partners.
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As part of the process for initiating the Enterprise Architecture project to rollout the
new application, you are developing a set of architecture principles.
You need to recommend the best approach for this work.
Based on the TOGAF Standard, Version 9.2, which of the following is the best
answer?
Please read this scenario prior to answering the question
Your role is consultant to the Lead Architect within a multinational company. The
company is organized into independent operational divisions on a national basis. The
company adapts its marketing messaging to fit each culture group, with the adaptation
of product offerings and manufacturing processes in each market.
The company has a mature Enterprise Architecture (EA) practice and uses the
TOGAF standard as the basis of its architecture framework. In addition to the EA
program, the company has several management frameworks in use, including
business planning, portfolio/project management, and operations management. The
EA program is sponsored by the CIO.
A strategic architecture has been approved that includes consolidation of multiple
applications that have been operating in the production facilities across the divisions.
The goal is to replace the functionality of the existing applications with a new
application running as a single instance in the company ' s primary data center.
Each division has completed the Architecture Definition documentation required to
integrate the new application to meet its own specific manufacturing requirements.
The key corporate change attributes and implementation constraints have been
confirmed. A consolidated gap analysis has been completed which has identified the
gaps across the Business, Data, Application, and Technology domains. Using the gap
analysis results, a review of the consolidated requirements, dependencies, and
interoperability requirements needed to integrate the new application has been
completed. The Business Transformation Readiness Assessment started in Phase A
has been completed. A risk assessment has been completed.
The implementation process is estimated to take four years. Because of the risks
posed by the complexity of the current environment, a phased approach is needed to
implement the target architectures. The Implementation and Migration Plan v0.1, the
draft Architecture Roadmap, and the Capability Assessment deliverables are now
complete.
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You have been asked to recommend the next steps to prepare the final
Implementation and Migration Plan.
Based on the TOGAF Standard, Version 9.2, which of the following is the best
answer?
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